AllAfrica Global Media is a multi-media content provider, systems technology developer and the source-of-record for African news and information worldwide.

In pursuit of doing well while doing good, AllAfrica:

Operates one of the Internet’s largest public content sites, allAfrica.com, adding more than 1000 new postings a day to a searchable archive of two million documents

Delivers vital information for businesses, students, researchers, civil society, governments and international institutions in Africa, North America, Europe and Asia

Provides a global voice and a revenue stream for over 130 African news organizations who are AllAfrica’s content partners

Produces specialised services for mobile devices and wholesale distributors, including LexisNexis, Factiva (Reuters and Dow Jones), Financial Times, Bloomberg and Européenne des Données, which reach tens of millions of users

Hosts digital commons for African development and peace networks, SustainableAfrica.org and PeaceAfrica.net, on behalf of the AllAfrica Foundation, along with a forthcoming broad-ranging, multimedia initiative HealthAfrica.org

Pioneers next-generation, open-architecture technologies, have built one of the early, integrated web-development platforms and stacks of open source software – to cost-effectively pull, tag, index, deliver and archive large amounts of multi-media content and develop new applications

The most popular Africa destination on the Web, allAfrica.com serves a large and growing Africa-interested audience worldwide and logs more than five million pages each month. The award-winning AllAfrica news team aggregates content from and about every African country, selects noteworthy documents produced by several hundred additional sources and supplements the coverage with interviews, updates and feature reporting. New travel and social networking initiative are coming online to widen the reach and audience involvement.

The company has received a Nepad award for contributions to African development and two nominations in successive years for a Webby, “the Oscars of the Internet,” by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences as “Best News Site,” alongside the BBC, MSNBC and Google.

For further information please visit: www.allafrica.com